Privacy group calls for probe of seven data companies
Just days after the Information Commissioner’s Office revealed it was planning to audit a number of UK data companies, Privacy…
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Former Equifax executive sentenced for insider trading
A former Equifax tech chief who worked on the company’s breach notification website for last year’s mass hack attack has…
FCA sends out chilling warning with Tesco Bank action
The Financial Conduct Authority has sent out a chilling warning to Equifax, British Airways and TSB that it plans to…
Equifax first to be hit with maximum £500k data fine
The UK division of Equifax has become the first ever company to be fined the maximum £500,000 for breaking data…
Equifax tries to kill off ‘far fetched’ data breach claims
Equifax has attempted to kick out the mass lawsuits taken out against the firm following last year’s data breach by…
Major UK data firms under scrutiny as watchdog bites
Some of the UK’s leading data companies, including CACI, Experian, Equifax, TransUnion (formerly Callcredit) and Data8, are among those firms…
Eight months on, Equifax is still notifying those affected
Equifax has come under fire yet again after it has been revealed that some of the 15 million Britons who…
Callcredit snapped up by TransUnion in £1bn mega deal
US information giant TransUnion has swooped on Callcredit Information Group in deal worth over $1.4bn (£1bn), just four years after…
Equifax hires new chief exec from private equity giant
Equifax has shunned internal candidates to appoint a permanent successor to chief executive Richard Smith – who was “retired” in…
Former Equifax tech chief charged with insider trading
The fall out from the Equifax data breach continues to crash down on the company after a former executive has…